The Edge is a free and open forum of events and happenings as viewed from the northern edge of Minnesota's Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness (BWCA)- the Gunflint Trail. Published by Boundary Country Trekking and edited by Ted Young, The Edge offers you an opportunity to write about your experiences and interests in this wonderful part of the planet. Let your imagination run wild as the wilderness that embraces the Gunflint Trail.

Monday, July 14, 2008

Gunflint Canoe Races Wednesday

The Annual Gunflint Trail Canoe Race Event is set for Wednesday, July 16, sponsored by the Gunflint Lake Property Owners Association. The food concession opens at 4:00 p.m. and the races begin at 6:00. Races include; long distance, traditional, backward paddling, broken paddle and gunnel pumping.

The races have become a major fundraising event of the summer on the Gunflint Trail and helps raise money to equip and train the volunteers in the Gunflint Trail Volunteer Fire Department.